CraigC
Sixgun Nut
What someone else might be happy with is irrelevant. Beauty is one thing and I doubt anyone would argue that an X-frame is more beautiful than the above custom. However, it's more than that, just as a custom rifle is more than just accuracy. IMHO, to be concerned only with accuracy is to either be very short-sighed or to have limited needs. Building a custom, handgun or rifle, is about getting a combination of features you want that do not exist in factory guns. It's about minimizing compromises. In the above case, it was about getting a .500 in a cartridge with all the performance 'needed' without the cartoonishly long and overblown .500S&W cartridge with its 62,000psi pressures and everything else that's unnecessary. In a revolver that is not equally cartoonishly long and oversized, that has grips that are actually comfortable to shoot with heavy loads. Making it beautiful was secondary but also very important. Building a custom is not about saving money. It's about getting exactly what you want and getting everything just right, rather than finding the factory built rifle that is the least wrong. Sometimes you just want something fine in your life.I like nice things as much as the next person and that revolver is a beautiful example, but someone who buys a bone stock revolver could be equally happy with theirs as you are with yours.